Rio Tinto Hiring for Principal Engineer – Projects Full Time

Principal Engineer – Projects

• Exposure to a truly global company
• Opportunity to build/enhance your professional skill set
• Work with diverse and challenging systems in an industrial setting – Salt Lake City

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join the Kennecott Projects & Engineering (P&E) Team. The purpose of this role is to set the vision and engage in strategies that protect, maintain, and secure flexible mining and processing activities, creates incremental value and reduces risk. The Principal Engineer will manage relationships with key internal stakeholders to deliver those strategies. This work is performed with attention to supporting immediate operations while also complying with Kennecott project governance standards.

Delivering support to Kennecott operations includes 1) management of diverse team of project managers and construction coordinators 2) compliance with laws, regulations, and permit conditions 3) monitoring project spend and performance 4) conformance to Rio Tinto performance standards 5) identification of projects and engagement with stakeholders to develop, plan, support and implement projects.

ing to the P&E Manager –Minerals, you will be coordinating with plants and projects in a heavily regulated and highly complex US regulatory setting, including but not limited to:

• Ensuring safety systems are being implemented across all projects and safety requirements are placed into all activities and tasks.
• Supervising project staff and contractors to ensure understanding and compliance with Rio Tinto and RTKC standards and to ensure project cost, schedule, quality, and safety objectives are met
• Administrative supervision of staff including development and assessment, training, mentoring, coaching, performance management, and compliance with policies and standards
• Providing guidance to staff for a variety of projects and technologies that will require you to leverage engineering, business, and cross functional team management skills
• Regularly interfacing with the project sponsors and senior management at assigned plants – manage steering committees as necessary
• Delivering the project and business cases by presenting the results that meet technical, quality, cost and schedule requirements as per the lifecycle stages
• Ability to read and understand complex mechanical, structural, and civil engineering plans and specifications.
• Ensure resourcing, procurement, contract management, and progress ing are completed.
• Ability to forecast project/portfolio spend based on a variety of factors including contractor forecasting vs. burn rates, procurement scheduling, etc.
• Ensuring appropriate corrective actions are taken where necessary for project quality, safety, cost, schedule, and staff performance

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in electrical, civil, mechanical, environmental, or related mining experience
• 5-10 years’ experience of progressive responsibility in engineering, project management, or others roles related to mining
• PMP Preferred
• Demonstrated ability in task organization and time management
• Strong demonstrated ability in effective communication (verbal and written) with various stakeholders at all levels of an organization

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, US. Kennecott is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich orebody of the Bingham Canyon Mine. Kennecott is a strong economic driver and strives to be a valuable community partner through strategic partnerships, charitable giving and sustainable development practices

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.